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Tony Akins (전태풍) of the Korean Basketball League’s KCC Egis is currently playing in the 2011 KBL Finals. Akins and the KCC Egis are facing the Dongbu Promy for the KBL Championship. The best-of-seven Finals currently has Dongbu Promy up 2-1 in the series having beaten KCC Egis, 62-54, this past Wednesday. The first two games were split with Dongbu winning Game 1, 76-71, and KCC Egis taking Game 2, 87-67. He sustained an ankle injury in the second quarter of Game 3 that kept him out for most of the second half. Prior to Game 3, he had averaged 12.4 points per game and is an integral part of KCC Egis. Hopefully he’ll be ready to go for pivotal Game 4 which is scheduled for today, Friday, April 22, 2011 at 5:45PM KST. We wish Tony much success and hope he’ll be hoisting the KBL Championship very soon!
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 Tony Akins (전태풍) of KCC Egis – 2011 KBL Finals Image Courtesy of Jumpball (www.jumpball.co.kr) |
Tony Akins (전태풍) of KCC Egis in 2011 Korean Basketball League Finals
2011 HalfKorean.com Annual Los Angeles Meet on 7/30/2011
The 2011 HalfKorean.com Annual Meet in Los Angeles, California presented by HalfKorean.com & Amerasian Unity Foundation is set for Saturday July 30, 2011.
We wanted to let everyone know as soon as we set the date so that people outside of the Southern California area can make arrangements if they plan to attend.
Venues and specific details are still being worked on but make sure to keep checking back here on HalfKorean.com for the latest information regarding the event.
We are planning to have an ALL day event with a family-oriented gathering during the day for those with children and continue through the evening.
This is the general theme for our meets:
“This meeting is for anyone whom is mixed Korean. It doesn’t matter what the percentage is, what the other mix is, how old you are and where you were born/raised. We want to bring together EVERYONE to celebrate our Korean culture and our diverse mixed backgrounds. Everyone, including non-mixed Koreans, is welcome to attend as well as long as they have a sincere interest in people of mixed Korean descent (significant other, etc.).”
For past annual meet info:
2010 HalfKorean.com Meet
2009 HalfKorean.com Meet
For further information or questions, please contact us: David Lee Sanders or Tia Legoski
Facebook users can RSVP here: 2011 HalfKorean.com Meet. Non-Facebook users can RSVP to: David Lee Sanders or Tia Legoski
Bone Marrow/Stem Cell Donor Needed
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We recently got word of Nico, a 13 year old boy in California of Korean and Caucasian descent, who is fighting for his life and in urgent need of finding a matching donor. This is actually something we’d like to get more involved with as far as spreading the word about the urgency and need for more mixed race individuals to be registered as potential donors. Throughout the years that we’ve been running this website we have read many stories about mixed race individuals needing a donor transplant and never finding a match. Let’s hope that we can find a match for Nico and other mixed race Asians looking for donors! Please consider becoming registered! Here is more information that was provided to us regarding Nico’s story and how you can register as a potential donor: Thousands of people with blood cancers such as leukemia and lymphoma are in urgent need of a blood stem cell or marrow transplant in order to survive. Every day, over 10,000 patients are desperately searching the registry for a match. Nico, a 13 year old boy living in California, has been fighting leukemia for over 5 years. To stay alive, he urgently needs a stem cell or bone marrow transplant from a donor that is genetically compatible with him. Currently, there is no one on the donor registry who matches Nico. In honor of Nico, please consider registering to be a potential marrow or stem cell donor (either online, right now, or at our upcoming drive). This precious gift could possibly save Nico’s life or that of another patient like him. Donors of Asian and mixed Asian-Caucasian ethnicity are particularly needed, as someone from these ethnic populations would be the best match for Nico! Why should I sign up? • Leukemia kills more children than any other disease. By signing up, if you are called on to become a donor, you’ll give a patient a second chance at life. (Bone marrow transplants are also used to treat children with brain tumors.) What’s involved? • Signing up to join the donor registry is quick and easy. You can sign up online to be a donor at http://join.bethematch.org/NICO or www.aadp.org and they, the National Marrow Donor Program, will send you a kit in the mail. You swab the inside of your cheek with a Q-tip and fill out the form and mail it back. That’s it — you’re on the Registry. |
 Nico |
Victor Cook’s Daughter Inspires Cartoon Character
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Victor Cook, whom we interviewed here on HalfKorean.com last year, recently found out that his daughter was one of the inspirations for a character on Cartoon Network’s cartoon series Young Justice. Victor had no idea until he read a quote from his good friend and colleague Greg Weisman, who serves as a producer on Young Justice. The two had worked together most recently on The Spectacular Spider-Man series. Hanah was chosen due to her being half Asian and half Caucasian with naturally blonde hair. Interestingly enough, Victor and his wife Sonia are both Korean/Caucasian and, of course, their children are the same mix. The Artemis character in Cartoon Network’s Young Justice series is Vietnamese/Caucasian and has blonde hair. Here is the quote from Greg Weisman on Artemis’ features and why he chose Hanah as an inspiration for the character: Victor Cook’s daughter is naturally blonde, though she’s one-half Korean on BOTH parents’ side, making her one-half Asian total. She, in part, served as one of our inspirations for Artemis. A cool side note to the super-heroine, huh?
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 Hanah Cook / Artemis from Young Justice  Victor with Hanah – Summer 1994 at his Disney office Images courtesy of Victor Cook & Cartoon Network |
Interview with Michael “Maniac” Horton (4/15/2011)
Michael Horton
We are pleased to present this new HalfKorean.com interview with Michael “Maniac” Horton.
Maniac is a hip hop recording artist who has been a part of many crews in Korea including UPT, Jiggy Fellaz and Dynasty Family.
We caught up with Maniac as he is finishing up his album as part of the duo New Dynasty with Snacky Chan to discuss their backgrounds, past, present and future career and other side projects that they are involved with.
Please check out the interview and let us know what you think.